The Guangfu Temple in Penang, Malaysia, was built in 1800 A. C. It is not only the first Chinese Temple there, but also the earliest of hiring foreign monks. Itself owned poly faith which included Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and some folk religions from Fujian and Guangdong. Due to the early immigrants demanding funeral and blessing service, some monks were hired for reciting scripture and engaging partial temple business. The Buddhist lectures were introduced to Guangfu Temple as regular activities in 1888 A.C. right after Venerable Mianlian was employed. Therefore the Guangfu Temple somehow can be treated as a Buddhist temple. Venerable Mianlian also started promoting Guangfu Temple's communication with Fujian Buddhists, especially from Fuzhou Yongquan Temple and Putian Yongyuan Temple, which facilitated missionary works of the Fujia Buddhism in Penang at that time. The success of the Fujian Buddhism's missionary work in Penang is because of the Gaungfu Temple monks as pioneers. The Gaungfu Temple became a very important base for them before the Kek Lok Temple (1891), Hongfu Temple (1914), Guanyin Temple (1922), Xiangyan Temple (1935), Miao Xianglin (1942) and Huayan Temple (1945) were built. It made a great contribution for the late period of the Buddhism booming in Penang.
